The Sensational Kids Show

Have you experienced Empty Nest Syndrome? Join Aniesa as she discusses the feelings, emotions and emptiness you can feel when your children grow up, leave and become less dependent on you. Learn how to overcome Empty Nest Syndrome, how you can fill your diary with new hobbies and why acknowledging your feelings is essential to putting yourself first.    KEY TAKEAWAYS  Empty nest syn...

Aniesa is joined by award-winning author and behavioural specialist, David Robson. Together they discuss the instinct of parents, the role teachers play in our children's lives and how you help your child connect, achieve and navigate.   KEY TAKEAWAYS  Teachers have so much pressure to perform and to deliver lessons it's hard for them to prioritise the emotional needs of their pupils, it...

Join Aniesa as she explores and explains the four parenting attachment styles and how attachment theory can impact parenting and the development of your child into adult life.  KEY TAKEAWAYS  As a parent, your presence is designed to make your child feel loved, safe, secure and protected and this leads to attachment. Attachment theory is how parents respond to their child's needs. ...

Kids love teaching! In today's show, Aniesa shares why kids love to teach and how it benefits their development. Discover why letting kids teach others will help with their planning, sequencing and directional skills.    KEY TAKEAWAYS  Kids teaching improves their planning skills, their sequencing and how well they can describe and explain their actions.    Allowing kids t...

In today's episode of The Sensational Kids show, Aniesa explores strategies for treating proprioception difficulties, our adaptive system and suggested some activities for how to help develop kids who are under-responsive or over-responsive.    KEY TAKEAWAYS  In terms of proprioception, you can be under-responsive or over-responsive, and it's really going to impact your movement, yo...

Executive functioning is overlooked, but crucial to development. In today's show, Aniesa explores executive functioning, how to build cognitive skills and regulate behaviour. Discover how to create a consistent routine with your child, how to develop skills and why self-control and self-regulation are essential to development.   KEY TAKEAWAYS  Executive functioning is the higher order of...

Aniesa is joined by play consultant, and author of the PAUSE, PLAY, CONNECTⓇ Flow, Debi John. Today they explore the world of play, how to express, learn and connect with your child through the wonderful world of play.    KEY TAKEAWAYS  The opposite to play is rigidity and feeling very stuck. Playfulness is a free expression with creativity and no big agenda. Playing brings that fee...

Five bugbears we have to overcome as parents, teachers and carers. In today's show, Aniesa shares her own experience and the bugbears and annoying things parents are taught or told to do when looking after their child.   KEY TAKEAWAYS  It's hard to build trust when a child has psyched themselves up about completing a task and then when they complete it parents, teachers or carers ask for...

Connection is everything, If we cannot connect and if we don't connect, then what's the point. Join Aniesa as she explains the value of connection, how to achieve and navigate your relationships in order to become happy and fulfilled and why the most important connection you can have is the one with yourself.   KEY TAKEAWAYS  Connection and guilt go hand in hand but In order for you to c...

Touch is a very powerful sense and can have a huge impact on development. In this episode find out more about our fundamental senses, the tactile system and how to develop your child's fine motor skills. Discover the difference between light and deep touch, how they're related to your emotions and how to overcome difficulties with tactile processing.    KEY TAKEAWAYS  The tactile sy...

What happens when things aren't quite going according to plan? In today's show, Aniesa dives into sensory processing and how to overcome to manage our senses, responses, actions and reactions. Discover the impact of your tactile system, how to help your child's development and how to spot sensory processing disorder.   KEY TAKEAWAYS  Sensory processing disorder is like a neurological tra...

Guilt is the thief of all things joyful. In today's episode of The Sensational Kids Show, Aniesa explores the guilt we all feel when we become parents and how to overcome it. Discover why guilt is completely unnecessary, how to take care of yourself and start letting go and why the perfect parents we're trying to be simply don't exist.   KEY TAKEAWAYS  Guilt is completely unnecessary. It...

Welcome to The Sensational Kids Show, a podcast all about empowering kids and the adults who raise them, care for them and teach them. This podcast is for all those parents who want their children to thrive, to succeed and simply not to have to struggle with what seems to come so easily to other kids their age. It is for anyone caring for a child with any range or level of additional needs. In tod...

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